Roffle Range Rover Roffel - It's All Over Now! Caution: Victim established!

[Junkman]

I just spent £912 sorting a clio gearbox out.

 

 

You only spent 760 quid sorting the gearbox out. A whopping 152 you were fleeced by HM's myrmidons for abslutely fuck all.

[chaseracer]

There may* have been some value added to said Clio gearbox... 

[Junkman]

I doubt a gearbox becomes more valuable by using it in a car, but even if, wouldn't it be well paid with  - let's say - ten percent?

[chaseracer]

A working gearbox in a car surely has a greater value in terms of utility than the obstacle/doorstop that is a broken gearbox.  Whether this equates to the arbitrary and flexible 20% payable to HMG is very debatable!

[xtriple]

As a fellow owner of something which considers large garage bills as no more than a slight 'meh' I admire and salute your choice of wbod. Personally I hate RR P38s with a vengeance as a friend had one for a decade, loved it more than life itself, cosseted it, garaged it, treated it to all the best... it still broke down with alarming regularity (usually suspension or some electronic device - seats frequently) and the amount of time it spent with the drivers seat out while various ecu's were accessed was alarming.

 

I have always sworn that I will NEVER have one but the guy over the roads 322 is looking mighty appealing and apart from a £3K bill for the (BMW) engine doing a camchain dance has been reliable... ish.

 

I will admit that when they are going right, they are cracking things to waft about in and sound lovely with the warbly V8.

 

 

 

 

Please note, the P38 mentioned above had been totally re-wired by some idiot with nothing other than blue wire which may have had some bearing on its electrical maladies!

[Junkman]

Brimmage:

 

 

OMG FTP oh dearage:

 

 

[Ghosty]

You can't be SRS

[Keymaster]

 

 

I'll have to brim it tomorrow and I bet it'll feel like it sucks the petrol station dry.

And yes, it actually gives me the confidence to brim it, something my last WBoD never managed.

If ever anything was certain after saying that, it was that you would end up broken down after brimming it

 

Hope it's not too serious/expensive to put right

[michael1703]

What did you brim it with?

[Tayne]

I am familiar with the above situation, it's a P38 owner's trick to save fuel.

[Captain Furious]

Guy in the pub said this would happen

[HMC]

Oh noes! What's the diagnosis?

[Cleon-Fonte]

What's the diagnosis?

 

It's a Range Rover.

[jonathan_dyane]

Oh fuck.

[Captain Furious]

17, 37 and 44 please

[Skizzer]

Well that descalated quickly.

[Ghosty]

Can I interest you in a loan of a diesel manual 405?

[Junkman]

Sadly the fuel saving was minimal, since it actually almost made it home.

It's not a biggie, the water pump bearing failed. It's actually still running fine, I just didn't want to risk that it overheats and runs low on battery.

Not having PAS is also not really that funny with these.

Miraculously, the belt is unscathed and the fan did not shred the radiator.

[Dave_Q]

You can't be SRS

 

According to the light on the dashboard, he definitely is.

[Junkman]

Yeah, there is that, too.

[michael1703]

Mine did that, pumps are cheap, you need a viscous fan spanner of about 36mm I think.

 

After you've done it, you might need to 'burp it'

 

I found running it with top hose jubilee clip loose and sliding a thin flathead screwdriver between the top hose and the radiator elbow would relieve it off its last bit of steam

[Junkman]

LH thread, right?

[Rocket88]

Now there's a familiar sight....................

[JohnDeere]

Earlier I wrote that you're doing nothing to put me off owning a P38.

 

Then I saw the (inevitable) AA truck.

 

I still want a P38.

[warninglight]

I bought both fan spanners for my Disco TD5 a couple of weeks ago. never used them, and sold the Disco on Saturday. Any use to you? One does the bug nut holding the fan on while the other holds the fan pulley tight.

 

PM me an offer and I'll get them in tomorrow's post, I don't intend on buying anything LR for another while

[dave21478]

TurboLOL

You honestly couldnt make it up......

[Supernaut]

TurboLOL

You honestly couldnt make it up......

 

Now you're due an HGF on that MGF.

[dave21478]

Not unless it can happen spontaneously while parked up over winter.

 

[Guest Hooli]

I want one this, lovely looking motors.

[Tayne]

Not unless it can happen spontaneously while parked up over winter.

 

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Not going to drive it up to Scotland in month or so?